Sentences with phrase «scientific knowledge at»

It measures the relative magnitude of stress in the parent - child system by integrating the existing scientific knowledge at the time of development with the clinical practice of diagnosing families under stress, thereby assuming that stressors are additive.

You have no scientific knowledge at all yet you smear honest scientists who are doing a great job despite the harassment they are receiving from the likes of you.

The state of scientific knowledge at that time was primitive relative to today.

They seem to suffer from unquenchable and mystical faith in alarmism and leave their everyday experience, common sense and basic scientific knowledge at the door.

I rather think that they used what was the best scientific knowledge at the time.

In brief the tenacity with which we hold on to a law is an indication of its place in the body of scientific knowledge at a particular time.

I also think you have to consider some things such as the many medical laws in the Old Testament that were well beyond scientific knowledge at the time, regarding what people were to eat, germs, etc..

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He says that he would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.

Many people place man at a higher plateau in knowledge as we learn more and more about our universe through science, and yet our predecessors knew enough to not throw out their religion just because their knowledge grew in scientific matters.

At times, certain assertions of scientific knowledge have even been opposed to these truths.

Monopolies of knowledge, scientific research, advanced production, credit and information, all guaranteed by international institutions, create a relentless polarization both at the global level and within each country.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

Your lack of knowledge of scientific principles doesn't surprise me at all, and helps proves Mr. Nye's point.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

Indeed, even the commonplace knowledge of practical things such as, for us, lies close to scientific discovery was, for the devout at least, also a matter of divine revelation.

«Ignoring» this has followed, at least in part, the intellectual defeat of the previous defences of the spiritual soul from abstract knowledge by nominalistic interpretations of scientific methodology (see our recent «Experimental Success» and «Human Dignity» posts).

It may have started out as a way to explain what people did not have the scientific knowledge to explain at one point in our history, but then it was learned by some that religion was useful in controlling the masses and bending them to their will for good or ill.

Perhaps these preachers at first felt secure in the scientific world because it reinforced their view of their task: to communicate knowledge, a special kind of knowledge, information about God and eternity.

For, in the words of Jacques Monod in Chance and Necessity, «The cornerstone of scientific method is... the systematic denial that «true» knowledge can be got at by interpreting phenomena in terms of... «purpose.

In short, the optimum contribution that can be made by increasing scientific knowledge and technological prowess and by the power of political mechanisms will be forthcoming only when certain prior conditions are presupposed which at the moment do not exist.

Can anyone think of an explanation of the world and how it works, or any piece of knowledge at all, where we once had a scientific explanation, but then later rejected that explanation in favor of a religious one?

It is common scientific knowledge now that not only life, but the stars, galaxies, planets on the macroscale and the subatomic layers at the micro level are all involved in transformations to which the word story seems more and more applicable.

to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.

Brad You are sorely misinformed there was NO scientific studies, it is pretty common knowledge if you don't want to look it up you can look at my previous posts.

In these questions there is doubtless at work in Aristotle's mind a concept of bodies that is pragmatically oriented to the world of things, a concept that Whitehead, from the higher vantage point afforded by modem scientific knowledge, is able to dismiss.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

At present, in our vocations and in other parts of our daily lives, most of us are probably making the most use we can of our scientific knowledge and practical technique.

It seemed to him necessary to distinguish the immediate «acquaintance with» God of the religious person from the indirect «knowledge about» to which at best scientific knowledge could lead.

Far from claiming to be Kantian, Bergson at least claims to be diametrically opposed to the necessary relegation of human knowledge (either scientific or philosophical) to the sphere of the merely phenomenal.

Theories like this rely upon the common scientific knowledge pertinent to the case at hand.

Decisions were adopted on the target to achieve LDN, how to align the UNCCD's goals and parties» action programmes with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), on effective implementation of the Convention at national, subregional and regional levels and linking scientific knowledge with decision making.

Over 400 participants came together in Rome to share scientific knowledge and experiences at «The International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition».

The difference from where we were before and where we are today as a result of this relationship between FIAL, ourselves, and CSIRO, is the fact that we did not have to invest in scientific capabilities that would take a number of years to materialise and to bear fruit, and we had immediate access to an existing knowledge base that was at arm's reach for us.

Innovation The R&D team at Creamy Creation is well known and respected for their scientific skill, beverage knowledge and innovation in the cream liqueur category.

Respectively based at the Université de Montréal and Université Laval (Quebec, Canada), these two organizations have built over the years a solid network of international experts who gather, synthesize and comment, in their respective domain of expertise, the most up - to - date scientific knowledge available on the development of young children, from conception to age five.

With its festival atmosphere and a panel of judges from the worlds of venture capital and communications as well as science, the Skolar Award contest also expresses a somewhat subversive notion: that researchers need not only to discover important new knowledge, but also to convey it beyond the lab and readers of scientific journals so that society at large can understand it, value it, benefit from it, and support it.

Science in an International and Humanitarian Context Jobs at UNESCO offer young scientists an opportunity to apply their scientific knowledge in an international, humanitarian context.

Building on AAAS's long - standing commitment to relate scientific knowledge and technological development to the purposes and concerns of society at large, the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) facilitates communication between scientific and religious communities.

Eventually, they produced a three - dimensional image of a protein to reveal its working architecture, deepening scientific understanding of the processes at work — knowledge that has been used to develop pharmaceuticals.

DoSER builds on AAAS's long - standing commitment to relate scientific knowledge and technological development to the purposes and concerns of society at large.

One of those in the audience, an Englishman teaching EST at a French university, stood up and said that the article was far too difficult for EST teachers and that they could not be expected to possess the requisite scientific knowledge.

«It's not that you require a scientific breakthrough to solve these situations — in developed countries the knowledge and technical tools have been available to women for many, many years,» says Ana Langer, coordinator of the Dean's Special Initiative on Women and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The model takes into account the latest knowledge of HIV's structure and biology collected from more than 100 scientific papers, according to its creators at the Visual Science Company in Moscow.

«We are getting at core scientific knowledge of how the mind and the brain work.»

In an era of great global challenges and geopolitical tension, the scientific approach to considering problems and building knowledge can guide humanity toward peaceful solutions, Iranian physicist Yousef Sobouti said in an address at a science diplomacy event in Trieste, Italy.

«Overall, working at the agency requires a good technical and scientific knowledge,... an excellent knowledge of the E.U. regulatory procedures and E.U. institutions, and good interpersonal skills,» François Maignen, a principal scientific administrator at the EMEA who supervises some activities on the EudraVigilance programme, writes in an e-mail.

If the Supreme Court had consulted the accepted body of scientific knowledge, however, they would have found that the companies» religious beliefs were not in conflict with the birth control methods they opposed, says Pratima Gupta, a doctor at the San Francisco Medical Center and former board member of the pro-choice network Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Moving «is a key career decision that can potentially play an important role in the generation of scientific knowledge by allowing scientists [to] find environments where they are more effective in doing their research,» writes Ina Ganguli, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a co-author on the paper, in an email to Science Careers.

His aim is to use his scientific knowledge and rhetorical skill to explain what is known, what is not known, and what political interests are at play — and then let the public decide.